The Lambs of London

by Peter Ackroyd | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0099472090 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Ossiefry of Aljezur, Faro Portugal on 6/13/2011
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Journal Entry 1 by Ossiefry from Aljezur, Faro Portugal on Monday, June 13, 2011
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Journal Entry 2 by Ossiefry at -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, trades, Florida USA on Monday, June 13, 2011

Released 12 yrs ago (6/13/2011 UTC) at -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, trades, Florida USA

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Journal Entry 3 by wingNakipawing at Lisboa - City, Lisboa (cidade) Portugal on Saturday, June 18, 2011
Oh my god, another wishlist book. Thank you so much Ossiefry for all the gifts and for hosting the sweepstake :D

Journal Entry 4 by wingNakipawing at Lisboa - City, Lisboa (cidade) Portugal on Tuesday, April 3, 2012
It was not as good as I expected from the reviews I read in other websites. But it was a fairly fast reading and good for the rides in the metro.

Journal Entry 5 by wingNakipawing at Hermiston, Oregon USA on Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Released 11 yrs ago (4/3/2012 UTC) at Hermiston, Oregon USA

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Wishlist Tag Book. It took a while and I'm sorry for that but I hope you enjoy.

Journal Entry 6 by wingoppemwing at Hermiston, Oregon USA on Monday, April 16, 2012
Arrived today - many thanks for tagging me with this book ...
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Journal Entry 7 by wingelizardbreathwing at Pendleton, Oregon USA on Thursday, July 5, 2012
Oppem, the Bookcrosser who previously journalled this book, passed away on June 23, 2012. I had the privilege of meeting her dear family and "catching" her large collection of registered books. I will be releasing this one soon.

Released 11 yrs ago (7/9/2012 UTC) at A Bookcrosser in A BookCrosser, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases

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Journal Entry 9 by Vasha at Ithaca, New York USA on Thursday, July 19, 2012
First published 2004.

The “Lambs” of the title are Charles and Mary Lamb, the brother and sister writing team whose Tales from Shakespeare was obligatory reading for children in the nineteenth century. Ackroyd’s story is set in the period before their literary fame. Charles is a drunken clerk and Mary a domestic slave to her strict mother and senile father. Their lives are rendered tolerable by devotion to the works of Shakespeare, quotes from whose plays pepper their conversation. The plot is set in motion by their encounter with William Ireland, an attractive rogue who convinces them that he has discovered manuscripts of lost Shakespearean dramas.

As a literary biographer and historian of London, Ackroyd is playing to his strongest suits in this novel. The pastiche of literary styles of the time is faultless, and the research into the Lambs and Ireland (also a real life figure) has unearthed much that is fascinating and bizarre. But the book inevitably and deliberately raises the issues of authorial responsibility to historical fact, and of the relationship fictionalization creates between writer and reader. Readers insufficiently well informed to distinguish the truth from the invention in
The Lambs of London are likely to feel uneasy — surely it makes a difference whether the real life Mary Lamb murdered her mother, as occurs in the book (she did!). But the uncertain line between reality and imagination is itself a key theme of a book much concerned with literary and personal fraudulence. — Richard Godden in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Journal Entry 10 by 1001-library at Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Thursday, March 7, 2013

Thanks so much for your donation Vasha!

This book is now part of the 1001-library. If you want to take this book from the library but don't know how to proceed, please refer to the 1001-library bookshelf.

Journal Entry 11 by Vasha at Collegetown Bagels, 203 North Aurora St. in Ithaca, New York USA on Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Released 7 yrs ago (4/27/2016 UTC) at Collegetown Bagels, 203 North Aurora St. in Ithaca, New York USA

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